Comments on: 25+ Alternative & Open Source Database Engines

By: Embedded Database Company

Embedded Database Company — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:28:38 +0000

RDM Embedded is a good database when the database needs to be tightly integrated with the application.

Fast in-memory database too: http://www.raima.com/in-memory-database/

By: tlu

tlu — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:24:28 +0000

Ingres was missed.

By: TedK

TedK — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:55:18 +0000

eXtremeDB – http://www.mcobject.com/extremedbfamily.shtml

Not open source but certainly “Alternative” and used in some very interesting high scalability scenarios.

By: kadishmal

kadishmal — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:34:26 +0000

I would second Slapo. I am a savvy CUBRID user (http://www.cubrid.org). Use it for my own sites, and administer for my clients. Used to deploy default MySQL, but found out CUBRID runs faster. Why don’t you include it in your list as well? It’s popular in Korea, and now heading to the global market as they have already ported WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, MediaWiki, and other CMS to work with CUBRID.

By: Mimesis

Mimesis — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:40:53 +0000

Mimesis http://mimesis.110mb.com/

By: Slapo

Slapo — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:18:14 +0000

I found another interesting database quite recently, it’s called Cubrid:
http://www.cubrid.org/

I haven’t tried it out yet but it looks very good on paper.

By: brightblue

brightblue — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:46:46 +0000

Which one of these would be easiest for a beginner?

By: Craig Norvell

Craig Norvell — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:31:03 +0000

AllegroGraph – Graph Database, implemented for RDF

http://www.franz.com/agraph

By: ogolla

ogolla — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:02:34 +0000

Still, MSSQL rocks. Nothing comes closer to it.

By: ssge

ssge — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:13:25 +0000

Thanks for the list! Do you also have any comparison analysis between any of them?